A MAN'S finger was cut off and another sliced to the bone following a knife attack outside a London Street nightclub.

A MAN'S finger was cut off and another sliced to the bone following a knife attack outside a London Street nightclub.

The 31-year-old, who has not been named, was rushed to Wexham Park Hospital with his missing digit packed in ice from the After Dark club, keeping the tissue alive and allowing surgeons to stitch it back on.

Surgeons at the hospital in Slough were able to sew the finger back thanks to the quick-thinking of police officers who dashed into the club to grab buckets of ice from behind the bar to keep the finger's tissue alive.

They had been called to the bloody scene 20 metres from the After Dark, at about 2.30am,

following reports of brawling.

Officers said the Reading man had left the popular Fools Gold event at After Dark at about

closing time with a group of Asian men - thought to be Nepalese - when a fight broke out.

During the brawl one of the men brandished a knife and sliced off the victim's finger.

Police arrived and sealed off the scene, grabbing the finger and arresting seven men aged from 25 to 47, including the victim. Six were later released without charge. Another is on police bail pending further enquiries.

She said: "It's thanks to the quick thinking of Reading with Wokingham police officers, who immediately packed the missing finger in ice, that this man was able to get to hospital and receive surgery so quickly.

"We wish him all the best in his recovery."

The operation to reattach the digit had gone well, she said, but it would be some time before